Smellydog
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Logs.
I'm not a real arborist...
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hairycow
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Logs aren’t worth burning as it’s a willow, it will come back and more vigorously than before as pruning/ pollarding encourages regrowth.
As it’s a willow it will also be drinking a substantial amount out of the ground around your property creating ground shrinkage and chasing any drainage work you have underground and the as it’s root plate expands it will have a hydraulic affect damaging anything it comes up against.
I would definitely remove it and treat the stump. You can auger holes in it or cut slots in the top of the stump sit a bag of road salt on itwith small holes on the underside and a large hole in the top and just pour water into the road salt and as with most things that don’t live in the sea they don’t like salt water and your not using chemicals if you have pets.
One removed you may see a small amount of ground heave/ expansion due to the willow now not drying up the ground where it was.
Your call, do a bit of graft now or spend a week off work digging your drains up and fixing them.
And don’t get me started about people with ivy on their house.
As it’s a willow it will also be drinking a substantial amount out of the ground around your property creating ground shrinkage and chasing any drainage work you have underground and the as it’s root plate expands it will have a hydraulic affect damaging anything it comes up against.
I would definitely remove it and treat the stump. You can auger holes in it or cut slots in the top of the stump sit a bag of road salt on itwith small holes on the underside and a large hole in the top and just pour water into the road salt and as with most things that don’t live in the sea they don’t like salt water and your not using chemicals if you have pets.
One removed you may see a small amount of ground heave/ expansion due to the willow now not drying up the ground where it was.
Your call, do a bit of graft now or spend a week off work digging your drains up and fixing them.
And don’t get me started about people with ivy on their house.
Smellydog
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I've got a pile of willow to burn next winter. I'm not excited about it....
Funny you should say that - I know one rather well, the brother of another out in Suffolk I believe. Both very experienced deer stalkers and part-time stump grinders
hairycow
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Send me your address I’ll send you a sponge to put under your stove to soak up the water
Smellydog
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I'm hoping it's dried out by end of next summerSend me your address I’ll send you a sponge to put under your stove to soak up the water
hairycow
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Keep your eye on it as it has a small window between wet dry and turning to rubbish.I'm hoping it's dried out by end of next summer
Dunwaters
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The problem is the roots.
Cut it off flush with the ground ( you will need to dig it out a bit ), once it’s down drill some 3/4 inch holes in the trunk and fill them with diesel.
Don’t tell anyone.
Keep an eye out for sprouts around the place and rip them out or spray them off. Diesel works well here too, but so does other stuff.
Don’t plant any more willow within 60 yards of your house.
That tree could invalidate your house insurance.
Smellydog
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I found some dead willow once but was preserved perfectly. Burnt hot! But yeah, it ordinarily rots rapid.
shakey jake
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nice way of polluting the environment.
might be encouraged in some dodgy third world country but not in a civilised society
we had a load of willow logs in the shed drying for 2 years, when I went to start using it, lots of it had started growing, with roots, kill it with fire....I'm hoping it's dried out by end of next summer
Smellydog
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Hmm, I don't dry wood in sheds. It dries outside in the sun on the south facing side. Most summer's bake my winter wood pile.
shakey jake
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ive burnt lots willow.
it burns quick but if its free heat is heat. its better than laylandi
Dunwaters
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I’m sure it is not encouraged, but it works, and I really don’t see an issue with a couple of tablespoons of diesel in a stump.
Sorry if it infringes on your sensitivities, but I don’t tit around when I want something gone.
shakey jake
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one of those words sums you up a treat
Dunwaters
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When you grow up routinely messing with DDT, PCB’s Dieldren,Gramoxone, asbestos, tobacco, tri gliceroids, alcohol, NOX and anything else harmful, an egg cup of diesel just isn’t a problem unless you drink it.
Come to think of it, there were fire breathers in the circus and fairs that used to swill it around their mouths and spray it out .
There doesn’t seem to be as many of us around nowadays.
Just another age thing?
Mountain Bug
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I've burnt just about everything over the years, some good and some bad, Cottonwood was the worst. I just keep telling myself "It burns better than snow"
Scott
Years ago the London council where I was living rightly decided to get rid of the Tree-of-Heaven [Ailanthus] plantation they had planted in a park near me perhaps 10 years previously.
I happened to pass by as the borough's lumberjack was sectioning one of the trunks and asked if I might take some for firewood. "Sure thing. Take as much as you want" came the reply. His smile seemed genuine.
I seasoned that wood a good two years+. It looked kiln-dried in year three.
I have never known a wood to exhibit better fire-retardant properties. Ever. [and I have tried to burn Willow] This stuff did not burn even if it was laid atop a raging fire.
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